Hints and tips:
...Saviour of L/S equities. Instead, he has incinerated billions of dollars this year with some flamboyantly bad bets....
...Jonathan Gibbs has a thing for trompe l’oeil; his debut novel, 2014’s Randall or The Painted Grape, portrayed a Young British Artist who was a dead ringer for Damien Hirst....
...Lord Livingston of Parkhead, aka ex-BT boss Ian Livingston, is the new go-to guy to hire as a non-exec. Dixons Carphone has appointed him as deputy chairman....
...“Some of our customers try to put black mascara on their lips – they don’t know what it’s for,” says Tracy Wanjiru, at east Africa’s largest supermarket chain Nakumatt....
...During the S&L crisis, which saw hundreds of small US banks and thrifts collapse, an average of 196 de novo banks and savings institutions emerged annually between 1984 and 1992....
...* While the vast majority of Greek government debt is issued in €s, European sovereign CDS is most liquid in $....
...The products reference various underlying funds which are advised and ultimately controled by Bernhard L Madoff Investment Securities (CHK) LLC in New York, into which funds of the sale proceeds are invested...
...In it, authors Kristopher S. Gerardi, Christopher L. Foote, and Paul S. Willen examine “optimism” and “pessimism” about the US housing market before the recent crash....
...Specifically, Greece’s rating downgrade by S&P and Moody’s could threaten banks’ P&L: the ECB currently accepts collateral as low as BBB- but it will normalise its policy to a minimum rating of A- in 2011...
...It measures the cost of insuring against volatility in the S&P 500 index. After hitting a low of about 20, it is back above 30. This signals distress....
...(together referred to as the ‘Borrowers’) and Credit Suisse International in its capacity as Original Lender and Security Agent and Titan Series Luxembourg S.à.r.l. as Luxco (Luxembourg Issuer) for the ‘...
...Voting for the FOMC monetary policy action were: Ben S.Bernanke, Chairman; William C. Dudley; Elizabeth A. Duke;Charles L. Evans; Donald L. Kohn; Jeffrey M. Lacker; Dennis P.Lockhart; Daniel K....
...The same volatility and heavy trading by individuals convinced a market veteran, Bernard L. Madoff, that his trading firm should stop making a market in four wild Web stocks....
...Yves Smith has a very interesting e-mail from William Black, who was counsel to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board during the S&L Crisis and blew the whistle on the “Keating Five” in 1989....
...- “Bloomberg L.P.’s horseshoe-shaped headquarters look and feel like a cross between the worlds of Terry Gilliam’s dystopian classic Brazil and Pixar’s Toy Story....
...It began with 2001’s L’approche (The Approach), continued in 2004 with Le Quotodien (Daily Life) and culminated with this year’s La Vie Moderne....
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